Author: evangelia baka

We live in an age when you can virtually “visit” the Louvre in Paris to see the Mona Lisa or the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to gaze at the Egyptian Temple of Dendur — all from your phone or desktop. So do museums still matter? Are they worth actually stepping inside to see collections firsthand? And are they worth protecting for the future? In “The Fire That Consumed Brazil’s Treasures,” the anthropologist Sarah Parcak wrote about the fire that destroyed the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro on Sept. 2: The tragedy that engulfed the 200-year-old...

The New York Transit Museum is the largest museum in the United States with a focus on the cultural, social and technological history of urban public transport.

In the summer of 1940, Helsinki was supposed to host the Summer Olympics. Two years earlier Tokyo, which had been due to stage the event, had forfeited it following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Helsinki stepped in, and embarked on a city-wide programme of development in preparation for the Games (which did come to the Finnish capital, but not until 1952, after making a post-war comeback in London). The 1940 Olympics may never have happened but their architectural legacy endures: the white, cubic concrete structures of purpose-built sports centres, service buildings and residential areas stand today as...

Colourful projections of early 20th-century paintings, including those by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, are displayed at the Atelier des Lumière – a digital museum dedicated to fine art in Paris. Located in a former foundry in the 11th arrondissement, the space is the French capital’s first digital fine art museum. Overseen by Culturespaces, a private operator of museums and monuments, Atelier des Lumières features artworks projected onto 10-meter-high walls across a 3,300 square meter area.   Reacting to the impact of technology on the way people experience art, the exhibition space aims to make art accessible to a large audience who do not regularly visit museums...